tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post789448903420308776..comments2024-01-20T06:33:12.603-08:00Comments on Created to Give God Glory: The Sovereign God Is Not ElectedCreated to Give God Gloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17298394573836878999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post-15226656698185935492014-03-06T06:09:07.182-08:002014-03-06T06:09:07.182-08:00Amen to what you said too.Amen to what you said too.Created to Give God Gloryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17298394573836878999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post-52379704448813949682014-03-05T17:19:34.795-08:002014-03-05T17:19:34.795-08:00It is amen all the way.
The first para. after t...It is amen all the way. <br /><br />The first para. after the entry text, was "cute", but it is so true, isn't it! <br /><br />How to tell people? You can tell, but whether or NOT they accept it, is another matter. Central to all existence is a point of reference. For gravity, the reference point is the ground. We can jump all we want, and we still can't run away from the ground. So long as you stay within scope, you can run from it, or should I say, run but you cannot hide?! Maybe in country A, if you litter, you don't get fined, but in Singapore, be careful, you will be poorer by $2,000 (can be as high as $10,000). While in Singapore, the littering law is a reference point. We need reference points, or chaos will reign. But why? Because constancy is necessary. <br /><br />As parents, we know that, when we deal with kids. If we deal win our kids in a shifting sand kinda of ways, the kids will mature in a highly "unpredictive" fashion and be savage, even. Think, how we domesticate or train animals. But the sad thing is that we think it is good for the kids, and for the animals, but we do NOT think it needs to apply to us! How good or bad the reference points or plains are another matter, altogether.<br /><br />Haven't we heard this lament, "how to continue playing, they keep changing rules?!" Yet, people do it themselves, "all the time", when it suits them (hee, hee)! My retired senior pastor, of late, lamented along the line: how do you counsel people when black is no more black, and white is no more white?! He was saying believers (many believers) are NOT accepting the Bible as the yardstick, as the Authority.<br /><br />Then, to make matter worse, we interpret the reference points ourselves, too casually. I mean if you want to think gravity's reference point is to be one storey or floor down, you can jump from a 20 storey building, and expect to float after one storey's fall, good luck to you!<br /><br />I said everything has a reference point. What about God? The reference point of the entire universe is God; what about God Himself? He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. He is The Reference Point, and, I believe His reference point is His holiness.<br /><br />I am telling you, you, and you, but will you choose to accept it. How many pastors would preach the last point fervently; for that matter, even believing His reference point is His holiness? Too many believers are believing His reference point is love.<br /><br />People need to choose to accept God is a holy God; He (God) cannot have it any other way. The gravity example is a metaphor, but you can see there is consequence to getting the reference point wrong, regardless you believe it or NOT. That is how truth is framed. You jumped from the 20 storey building, regardless you believe the reference point is one floor down or no reference point, you will fall to the ground, 20 floors down. I have heard people saying "you reap what you sow" is not part of the principles of God. No, it is in the Word, and it is preceded with "God is NOT mocked". "No one will eventually go to Hell, because God is love-man" No, God is love and God is holiness. And God's kinda of love is love unto righteousness, i.e. demands of holiness still come first. <br /><br />He is the potter, we, the clay; He is the Creator, we, the created, is the potsherd to question the potter? Is not the potsherd to accept his potter? Has not the potter the right to fashion the clay to that which pleases him? The potsherd ought to be thankful to the potter for its existence and the potter's workmanship. I can say, will you, you and you, choose to accept it?<br /><br />Nonetheless, tell it, say it, the words of God, according to the grace given you by God, for He neither sleep nor slumber; He is at work, through His Spirit, to bring conviction of the truths of God, according to His holiness, wisdom, and timing. He accounts to no one, but to His own holiness; we, we account to Him, always, regardless. He is forever and ever sovereign.<br /><br />Anthony Chia, high.expressionshigh.expressions (Anthony Chia)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15796568536820239102noreply@blogger.com